"Xenophilia" GTK+ Theme Engine version 0.7
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This piece of software was written by Johan Hanson <johan@tiq.com>.
Based on GTKstep by Ullrich Hafner.

Requirements
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GTK+ 1.2.0 or higher.
Does not work with GTK+ 1.3.x/2.0 (yet).
I have tested it with GTK+ up to 1.2.9.

Features
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Beside the fact that the theme is has a pleasing look:

 * Patches several widgets with code that changes the
   look and feel to the better.

 * Infernal - a "Helvetica condensed"-lookalike font is included.
   Based on Helvetica, MS Sans-Serif and XHelvetica.
   The font is Public Domain.

Installation
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See the file INSTALL.

Configuration
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See the file CONFIGURATION or themes/Xenophilia/README.html.

Background and Inspiration
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I wrote this theme engine because I think that the default GTK
look is kind of ugly.

I designed the theme to look good with Window Maker and Netscape.
If you think it looks like Windoze 95, you should know that the look
of Windoze is largely a rip-off of NeXTStep's. (among many other things)

The code was based on GtkStep 1.5 by Ullrich Hafner, but has evolved
a great deal since that. More than 90% of the code has been rewritten.

Note on Software Patents
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The (idiots at the) US patent office has granted a patent to Apple
concerning theme engines that change both look and feel. (And in my view
the people behind it can go file system check themselves ...)
Here is a short list of prior art (directly from my mind (!), I can get you
more if I get to dig around a little bit):

  * MagicUserInterface by Stefan Stuntz on the Amiga.
    You could add completely new looks and behaviours for the stock widgets
    with the help of dynamically loaded libraries.
  * ObjectDesktop for OS/2.
    http://www.stardock.net/products/odnt/odntwhitepaper.html
    (Yeah, yeah, I did not remember it, it was right in front of my eyes)
  * Kaleidoscope for MacOS. (!)
  * GTK's theme engine framework itself.

... and all of those were available when the patent was filed in May '98.
For more info and a discussion about this issues, see:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/25/169230

If you are still uncertain about these things, then set the environment
variable XENO_THEME_PATCH to NONE and no patch will be applied.

License
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Xenophilia GTK+ Theme Engine
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Johan Hanson.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the 
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, 
Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.